GPU Choking at distance

[ImCptCrunch 17]

Hi

Tonight I come to you with a troubling and annoying problem. For some reason my GPU will choke if I happen to look into a city, but wait that is not all! It does not only do this with DayZ, it does it with,

every.game.i.play

Looking out into the distance (more than couple hundred meters) of any game, even TF2 chokes my GPU and brings my FPS down to a dismal 19 FPS...the thing is, my specs are pretty decent, so i have no idea what so EVER, why this is happening, if there is ANY fix for this, any fix at all, please please please tell me what it is.

These are my specs:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

AMD FX6100 Six-core Processor

8g RAM

Direct X 11

AMD Radeon HD 6900 (OC version)

1.7gig RAM

1920x1080 monitor (60hz 32bit)

all Direct X features enabled

driver version 8.961.0.0

Any help would be much appreciated! :)

[nathan17890 1]

Have you tried updating you graphic drivers?

Allocate more ram to the game.

[ImCptCrunch 17]

Have you tried updating you graphic drivers?

Allocate more ram to the game.

Drivers are current ones and RAM in game is suggested to stay at default, but yes I have tried all of the ram settings but no success.

[JamesButlin 108]

You sure it's your GPU choking? There has been some issues with all of the threads not being used for higher than dual core processors - try out AMD tray tools like in this thread

Edit: Multi-thread tweak in ATI Tray tools have upped my FPS in cities by about 10/20fps on a Radeon HD 6870 - even if it's not your CPU, there are a few tweaks in the tray tools that can up your performance

Edited September 8, 2012 by JamesButlin

[ImCptCrunch 17]

You sure it's your GPU choking? There has been some issues with all of the threads not being used for higher than dual core processors - try out AMD tray tools like in this thread

Edit: Multi-thread tweak in ATI Tray tools have upped my FPS in cities by about 10/20fps on a Radeon HD 6870 - even if it's not your CPU, there are a few tweaks in the tray tools that can up your performance

Thanks for the info, Give me a couple of minutes and I will get back to you on results! :)

[ImCptCrunch 17]

You sure it's your GPU choking? There has been some issues with all of the threads not being used for higher than dual core processors - try out AMD tray tools like in this thread

Edit: Multi-thread tweak in ATI Tray tools have upped my FPS in cities by about 10/20fps on a Radeon HD 6870 - even if it's not your CPU, there are a few tweaks in the tray tools that can up your performance

Im not currently able to get into DayZ and test this, but I did test it in normal Arma2 the results were great...sort off, my performance in forests and in towns was massively improved, my distance was great too, but i still have issues with the FPS dropping again when I look into cherno, or any big city, its a somewhat alright 24 FPS, but dropping down from 40 makes it quite annoying, and hard to play.

[FrankTheDuck 99]

Your frames will always drop when in built up areas. There is nothing you can do about it.

Simply adjust your graphics settings to match so you get a steady flow whilst in the most built up area you can find.

[JamesButlin 108]

Im not currently able to get into DayZ and test this, but I did test it in normal Arma2 the results were great...sort off, my performance in forests and in towns was massively improved, my distance was great too, but i still have issues with the FPS dropping again when I look into cherno, or any big city, its a somewhat alright 24 FPS, but dropping down from 40 makes it quite annoying, and hard to play.

Glad the results are better :) DayZ has a very well known memory leak, the longer you play the lower your FPS will go :( I consider less than 30 fps normal for built up areas (oddly enough doesn't make a different as to whether i'm on highest settings or lowest).